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What It Took to Win

Author : Michael Kazin
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717796
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book What It Took to Win written by Michael Kazin and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice One of Kirkus Reviews' ten best US history books of 2022 A leading historian tells the story of the United States’ most enduring political party and its long, imperfect and newly invigorated quest for “moral capitalism,” from Andrew Jackson to Joseph Biden. One of Kirkus Reviews' 40 most anticipated books of 2022 One of Vulture's "49 books we can't wait to read in 2022" The Democratic Party is the world’s oldest mass political organization. Since its inception in the early nineteenth century, it has played a central role in defining American society, whether it was exercising power or contesting it. But what has the party stood for through the centuries, and how has it managed to succeed in elections and govern? In What It Took to Win, the eminent historian Michael Kazin identifies and assesses the party’s long-running commitment to creating “moral capitalism”—a system that mixed entrepreneurial freedom with the welfare of workers and consumers. And yet the same party that championed the rights of the white working man also vigorously protected or advanced the causes of slavery, segregation, and Indian removal. As the party evolved towards a more inclusive egalitarian vision, it won durable victories for Americans of all backgrounds. But it also struggled to hold together a majority coalition and advance a persuasive agenda for the use of government. Kazin traces the party’s fortunes through vivid character sketches of its key thinkers and doers, from Martin Van Buren and William Jennings Bryan to the financier August Belmont and reformers such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Sidney Hillman, and Jesse Jackson. He also explores the records of presidents from Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Throughout, Kazin reveals the rich interplay of personality, belief, strategy, and policy that define the life of the party—and outlines the core components of a political endeavor that may allow President Biden and his co-partisans to renew the American experiment.

The Time it Took Tom

Author : Nick Sharratt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Time it Took Tom written by Nick Sharratt and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom discovers a can of red paint and decides to take the time to paint everything in sight.

Took

Author : Mary Downing Hahn
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544551532
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Took written by Mary Downing Hahn and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witch called Old Auntie is lurking near Dan's family's new home. He doesn't believe in her at first, but is forced to accept that she is real and take action when his little sister, Erica, is "took" to become Auntie's slave for the next fifty years.

What It Takes

Author : Richard Ben Cramer
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453219641
Total Pages : 1712 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book What It Takes written by Richard Ben Cramer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 1712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Game Change there was What It Takes, a ride along the 1988 campaign trail and “possibly the best [book] ever written about an American election” (NPR). Written by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New York Times–bestselling author Richard Ben Cramer, What It Takes is “a perfect-pitch rendering of the emotions, the intensity, the anguish, and the emptiness of what may have been the last normal two-party campaign in American history” (Time). An up-close, in-depth look at six candidates—George H. W. “Poppy” Bush, Bob Dole, Joe Biden, Michael Dukakis, Richard Gephardt, and Gary Hart—this account of the 1988 US presidential campaign explores a unique moment in history, with details on everything from Bush at the Astrodome to Hart’s Donna Rice scandal. Cramer also addresses the question we find ourselves pondering every four years: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that allows them to throw their hat in the ring as a candidate for leadership of the free world? Exhaustively researched from thousands of hours of interviews, What It Takes creates powerful portraits of these Republican and Democratic contenders, and the consultants, donors, journalists, handlers, and hangers-on who surround them, as they meet, greet, and strategize their way through primary season chasing the nomination, resulting in “a hipped-up amalgam of Teddy White, Tom Wolfe, and Norman Mailer” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). With timeless insight that helps us understand the current state of the nation, this “ultimate insider’s book on presidential politics” explores what helps these people survive, what makes them prosper, what drives them, and ultimately, what drives our government—human beings, in all their flawed glory (San Francisco Chronicle).

This Is How It Took Place

Author : Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 935357384X
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book This Is How It Took Place written by Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2019-11-09 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Prodigious, gifted, precocious: Rudrakshi Bhattacharjee was all of this. It is an incalculable loss to Indian literature that she left us at the age of sixteen.' -- Jeet Thayil. A girl tries in vain to please her mother, a young woman comes to terms with her infidelity, siblings take over each other's identities -- these stories, often told from the perspectives of silent rebels, headstrong loners and nihilistic onlookers, open up the fissures between friendship, love, marriage and familial bonds. Selected and edited by Shinie Antony, these sixteen stories house situations and characters that readers won't forget. Fuelled by a singular and affecting voice, This Is How It Took Place is a truly masterful debut.

It Took What it Took

Author : Edward Graves
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1644247836
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book It Took What it Took written by Edward Graves and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-06-23 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graves is grateful for the opportunity to present his latest literary work compiled for your benefit and consideration to enhance your living skills from an all-inclusive perspective of day-to-day living. In sharing this work, it is his belief that the reader will be enlightened with understanding, as well as developing those living skills to help the reader understand his or her life more abundantly. Graves coined the word subcultural psychosis as the disorienting process of losing the ability to accurately assess one's own sense of cultural enhancements as a result of alien or dysfunctional cultural displacement. In order to test a hypothesis and predict systems and subsystems our data must be accurate. "I conclude that I have recognized the inaccuracy of the data fed into the American Culture." It Took What It Took demonstrates my most recent work that would allow you to make more constructive decisions, and a better outlook on your life and the lives of all the different people you encounter in your lifetime. Indeed, life is longer than any life span. Our ability to fully understand life does not rest with the individual. Remember, it takes a whole village to raise a child. The more we become willing to learn and prosper with our neighbor, the brighter the sunlight shines in all of us. Edward C. Graves, MLA Author and Public Speaker 1996 Book Achievement Award Winner

I Took a Walk

Author : Henry Cole
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0688151159
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book I Took a Walk written by Henry Cole and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1998-03-23 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever sat quietly near a stream, or in a meadow or a wood, and just looked and listened? Well, now is your chance-come walk with Henry Cole in this delightful follow-up to Jack's Garden. Vibrant, die-cut flaps fold out, inviting young viewers to observe the many forms of wildlife and plants found on land and in the water. Turn the pages for an interactive and fun exploration into nature. You'll be surprised by how much you see!

Africa: What It Gave Me, What It Took from Me

Author : Margarethe von Eckenbrecher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611461510
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Africa: What It Gave Me, What It Took from Me written by Margarethe von Eckenbrecher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa: What It Gave Me, What It Took from Me is a memoir of an extraordinary woman who, as a newlywed, travelled with her husband to German South West Africa, a colony situated just above South African on the Atlantic coast. Here they begin a farm in a quite remote area where they raise cattle, sheep, and goats and plant large gardens on the banks of the Omaruru River. They build a comfortable home and welcome their first child. As the von Eckenbrechers work hard to build, their farm natives, whose land has been appropriated by the colonial government, are planning a revolt against colonial rule. Insurrection begins and the von Eckenbrechers are in the midst of it all. As the rebellion strengthens, Frau von Eckenbrecher returns to Germany to wait out the insurrection. Her husband eventually returns as well. Frau von Eckenbrecher never feels completely at home again in Germany. The von Eckenbrechers divorce and Frau von Eckenbrecher returns to South West Africa with her two sons. Her former husband emigrates to Paraguay. Frau von Eckenbrecher eventually takes a position in a German language school in Windhoek, the capital city, and rears her two sons there. In her book she chronicles colonial life, the natives of the colony, how the Spanish Influenza pandemic raged in Namibia, World War I in Africa, German surrender, and the South African occupation of German South West Africa and the eventual ceding of the colony to South Africa. The editors bring the memoir to a close with an update of Frau von Eckenbrecher’s later life and death, and a short remembrance from one of her two grandsons.

Mark Zuckerberg Biography: What It Took To Invent Facebook and More?

Author : Chris Dicker
Publisher : Chris Dicker
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Zuckerberg Biography: What It Took To Invent Facebook and More? written by Chris Dicker and published by Chris Dicker. This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probably you've watched "The Social Network" movie to see what's like to be Mark Zuckerberg and what he did to become successful. However, Mark Zuckerberg himself criticized the movie by questioning some facts about his life mentioned in the film. Overall, Mark was amused by the efforts someone put in to create a movie of him, but he did not really liked the idea at first. "I just wish nobody made a film about me while I am still alive" - Mark Zuckerberg ... and I wonder why... In this biography of Mark Zuckerberg, you'll learn exactly what he did to become successful with Facebook. Unlike the movie, we are going to cover his real life without fancy actors and scripts. In fact, there are some things about Mark Zuckerberg not many people know about. Despite all of that, Mark Zuckerberg is genius. His true potential comes from innovation and different approach to things. You'll also learn more about Mark Zuckerberg's private life. He bought entire neighborhood around his house to eliminate press and neighbor rumors. No question, he's one of the most successful people in the world and you are about to embark onto his secrets to create phenomenal lifestyle and work environment people around the world admire. Grab your copy now!

I Wrote the Book on Advertising.

Author : Patrick Peduto
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781543967524
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book I Wrote the Book on Advertising. written by Patrick Peduto and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It took 50 years on Madison Avenue, a million concepts for mostly Fortune 100 Companies and more than a hundred professionals to write this book.

Whatever It Took

Author : Henry Langrehr
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063027445
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Whatever It Took written by Henry Langrehr and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an unforgettable never-before-told first-person account of World War II: the true story of an American paratrooper who survived D-Day, was captured and imprisoned in a Nazi work camp, and made a daring escape to freedom. Now at 95, one of the few living members of the Greatest Generation shares his experiences at last in one of the most remarkable World War II stories ever told. As the Allied Invasion of Normandy launched in the pre-dawn hours of June 6, 1944, Henry Langrehr, an American paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne, was among the thousands of Allies who parachuted into occupied France. Surviving heavy anti-aircraft fire, he crashed through the glass roof of a greenhouse in Sainte-Mère-Église. While many of the soldiers in his unit died, Henry and other surviving troops valiantly battled enemy tanks to a standstill. Then, on June 29th, Henry was captured by the Nazis. The next phase of his incredible journey was beginning. Kept for a week in the outer ring of a death camp, Henry witnessed the Nazis’ unspeakable brutality—the so-called Final Solution, with people marched to their deaths, their bodies discarded like cords of wood. Transported to a work camp, he endured horrors of his own when he was forced to live in unbelievable squalor and labor in a coal mine with other POWs. Knowing they would be worked to death, he and a friend made a desperate escape. When a German soldier cornered them in a barn, the friend was fatally shot; Henry struggled with the soldier, killing him and taking his gun. Perilously traveling westward toward Allied controlled land on foot, Henry faced the great ethical and moral dilemmas of war firsthand, needing to do whatever it took to survive. Finally, after two weeks behind enemy lines, he found an American unit and was rescued. Awaiting him at home was Arlene, who, like millions of other American women, went to work in factories and offices to build the armaments Henry and the Allies needed for victory. Whatever It Took is her story, too, bringing to life the hopes and fears of those on the homefront awaiting their loved ones to return. A tale of heroism, hope, and survival featuring 30 photographs, Whatever It Took is a timely reminder of the human cost of freedom and a tribute to unbreakable human courage and spirit in the darkest of times.

It Takes a Village

Author : Hillary Rodham Clinton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471108643
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book It Takes a Village written by Hillary Rodham Clinton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago one of America's most important public figures, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, chronicled her quest both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public to help make our society into the kind of village that enables children to become able, caring resilient adults. IT TAKES A VILLAGE is a textbook for caring, filled with truths that are worth a read, and a reread. In her substantial new introduction, Senator Clinton reflects on how our village has changed over the last decade, from the internet to education, and on how her own understanding of children has deepened as she has watched Chelsea grow up and take on challenges new to her generation, from a first job to living through a terrorist attack. She discusses how the work she is doing in the Senate is helping children and looks at where America has been successful, improvements in the foster care system and support for adoption, and where there is still work to be done, providing pre-school programmes and universal health care to all our children. This new edition elucidates how the choices we make about how we raise our children, and how we support families, will determine how all nations will face the challenges of this century.

The Riches of This Land

Author : Jim Tankersley
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541767845
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The Riches of This Land written by Jim Tankersley and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid character-driven narrative, fused with important new economic and political reporting and research, that busts the myths about middle class decline and points the way to its revival. For over a decade, Jim Tankersley has been on a journey to understand what the hell happened to the world's greatest middle-class success story -- the post-World-War-II boom that faded into decades of stagnation and frustration for American workers. In The Riches of This Land, Tankersley fuses the story of forgotten Americans-- struggling women and men who he met on his journey into the travails of the middle class-- with important new economic and political research, providing fresh understanding how to create a more widespread prosperity. He begins by unraveling the real mystery of the American economy since the 1970s - not where did the jobs go, but why haven't new and better ones been created to replace them. His analysis begins with the revelation that women and minorities played a far more crucial role in building the post-war middle class than today's politicians typically acknowledge, and policies that have done nothing to address the structural shifts of the American economy have enabled a privileged few to capture nearly all the benefits of America's growing prosperity. Meanwhile, the "angry white men of Ohio" have been sold by Trump and his ilk a theory of the economy that is dangerously backward, one that pits them against immigrants, minorities, and women who should be their allies. At the culmination of his journey, Tankersley lays out specific policy prescriptions and social undertakings that can begin moving the needle in the effort to make new and better jobs appear. By fostering an economy that opens new pathways for all workers to reach their full potential -- men and women, immigrant or native-born, regardless of race -- America can once again restore the upward flow of talent that can power growth and prosperity.

It Took Two Wishes

Author : Edwina Wyatt
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0593119541
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book It Took Two Wishes written by Edwina Wyatt and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Count down to party time together with this sweet and whimsical birthday story about one girl and the power of wishes that come true in unexpected ways. It took twelve moons, four seasons, and countless sleeps... but I waited. For candles and cake and the most perfect birthday. But what happens when the perfect birthday doesn't turn out the way you planned? In this heartwarming celebration of birthdays and new (furry) friends, count along as one birthday party in the park becomes so much more -- the reunification of lost friends, and the joy that comes with making new ones. Then, just maybe, one birthday wish come true will become two.

When the King Took Flight

Author : Timothy Tackett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674044207
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book When the King Took Flight written by Timothy Tackett and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the mounting turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a small group of citizens a few miles from the Belgian border and forced to return to Paris. Two years later they would both die at the guillotine. It is this extraordinary story, and the events leading up to and away from it, that Tackett recounts in gripping novelistic style. The king's flight opens a window to the whole of French society during the Revolution. Each dramatic chapter spotlights a different segment of the population, from the king and queen as they plotted and executed their flight, to the people of Varennes who apprehended the royal family, to the radicals of Paris who urged an end to monarchy, to the leaders of the National Assembly struggling to control a spiraling crisis, to the ordinary citizens stunned by their king's desertion. Tackett shows how Louis's flight reshaped popular attitudes toward kingship, intensified fears of invasion and conspiracy, and helped pave the way for the Reign of Terror. Tackett brings to life an array of unique characters as they struggle to confront the monumental transformations set in motion in 1789. In so doing, he offers an important new interpretation of the Revolution. By emphasizing the unpredictable and contingent character of this story, he underscores the power of a single event to change irrevocably the course of the French Revolution, and consequently the history of the world.

It Took a Beast to Tame Her

Author : Neicy P.
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781983910487
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book It Took a Beast to Tame Her written by Neicy P. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patience never thought that finding out who she really was, would bring out some long-lost enemies. At the age of twenty-two, Patience was at the top of her game. She dominated every extra curriculum activities in college and was ready to walk across the stage as a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Texas, in a couple of weeks. She had great friends and a supportive aunt. Everything was going fine until something unexplainable happens at her last track meet. Aunt Lurita tries to explain to her why she was so different, but Patience didn't believe her. She thought that a quick getaway with her friends will get her mind off the all her troubles. The trip turned out to be more confusing and added on to the things that she was running away from. Patience became a part of a world that she didn't know exist. Patience reunites with the family that was lost in her memories. She also finds out that she is a wolf and a Guardian(witch) of the Southern Territories. She inherits her parents gifts and they are uncontrollable together. Patience brothers try to train her to be one with her wolf, but her Guardian side does not want to take the back seat. She is forced to live through nightmares of her parents' death and the secrets that her Aunt Lurita been holding in for years. To makes matters worse, she has to mate with a man she doesn't know. But, Xavier remembers her and have no plans on letting her go. Xavier was born and raised to become a leader. After his father's death, Xavier took his father spot on the board of Alphas and was giving the southern territory to run. Many didn't think that he was able to do it because of his age, but no one challenge him for it. Patience was promised to him growing up. On the day that it was to be announce, she was taking from him, along with her parents. He tried his hardest to move on, but he couldn't replace his Queen. He was going to give into the Elders and mate with another woman in the pack. But, a disturbance at the sheriff station put a stop to them plans. His Queen was alive and well. He was ready to do whatever it takes to keep her by his side. The Elders disagree with his choice, and that didn't stop him from making her his. Xavier knew that Patience parents were killed because of the power the possess as a couple. He was prepared to walk that road with her. Even if he had to reveal his secrets to the world. Xavier tries to show Patience that he is her protector. But, with the blood of an Alpha running through her veins, made it hard for her to relinquish that control. When tragedy hits the family, Patience becomes what they all fear. Will Patience overcome this with Xavier's love or will she give in to the other.

The Revolution of Marina M.

Author : Janet Fitch
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0316125776
Total Pages : 925 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Revolution of Marina M. written by Janet Fitch and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 925 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mega-bestselling author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, a sweeping historical saga of the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of one young woman. St. Petersburg, New Year's Eve, 1916. Marina Makarova is a young woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life, a life about to be violently upended by the vast forces of history. Swept up on these tides, Marina will join the marches for workers' rights, fall in love with a radical young poet, and betray everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through almost unimaginable upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds, marked by deep passion and devastating loss, and the private heroism of an ordinary woman living through extraordinary times. This is the epic, mesmerizing story of one indomitable woman's journey through some of the most dramatic events of the last century.